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David Cameron’s green Tories
Friday, April 4th, 2008Amazing, that the Tories have come out against BAA and BA business plans, although they lay blame squarely at the Labour Governments feet, naturally. Well maybe this is just the same old political point scoring we know and love, but the fact that a major political party takes on the issue in this way is [...]
Reasons to be free from flying
Wednesday, December 5th, 2007I thought I would post some of the recent reasons that people have given for being free from flying. This is in part a response to an email earlier in the week from a good friend after he read an article in the Times, “Airlines to make billions from CO2 trade” by the Transport Correspondent, [...]
Why do something today when you can put it off til tomorrow?
Friday, November 23rd, 2007BAA proudly announces the advent of a new runway and terminal 6 (although silent about the village that needs to be bulldozed)
It seems the future is always the best place to deal with urgent issues that otherwise require us to address things in our own lives. At least, that is, according to many economists and [...]
BAA take off the gloves
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007A signal court case affecting the right of individuals to protest peacefully about climate change:
BAA are attempting to ban environmental campaigners from the airport, parts of the rail network and sections of the M25 and M4 motorways.
Heathrow Airport Ltd (part of BAA) has applied for an extremely broad injunction under the Protection from Harassment Act. [...]